NEW DELHI: The Indian space industry is on the cusp of dramatic transformation. Until now restricted to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the push is for ensuring a larger role for the private sector in the manner in which it is playing out internationally. Driving this change is ISpA, the Indian Space Association, an […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The Quad grouping does not need to have a separate bureaucratic set-up, says Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India. The existing resources in governments of each of the four countries are good enough to deliver as was evident in the way the first meeting of the Quad leaders was quickly and smoothly […]Read More
NEW DELHI: China’s economic coercion has not deterred Australia from being a member of the Quad; the same holds true for India that also has issues with China, says Barry O’Farrell, Australia’s High Commissioner to India. Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’, the Australian envoy clarified that the Quad arrangement […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Moscow does not want war with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. Regarding the replies received from the United States and NATO in response to Russian demands, Lavrov said the U.S. proposals were better than the ones received from NATO. He added that President Vladimir Putin would decide how to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has exported a little over $1 billion in arms and equipment over the last seven years and the government is getting ambitious: the target the prime minister has talked about for a while is $5 billion by 2025. It’s a daunting figure but the deal with the Philippines, which has agreed to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: From the shores of Africa to the far corners of Asia, one refrain has become strikingly apparent: China-funded development projects, while badly needed, are too expensive and often overpriced. The list of African countries cancelling China-funded projects is getting longer. Sierra Leone on Africa’s west coast was the first in 2018, cancelling a […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Dr. Pooja Bhatt, a specialist on Asian security issues with a special focus on maritime issues and Author of the “Nine Dash Line: Deciphering the South China Sea Conundrum” in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Bhatt discusses External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar first official visit to the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s been a year since India and China announced to disengage troops from the north and south banks of Pangong Tso in Eastern Ladakh. The move followed several rounds of talks between the military commanders of both sides after India occupied strategic heights in the Kailash range and gained the upper hand. After […]Read More
Govt Will Now ‘Intervene’ In Abortions The government’s family planning association has said it would “intervene” in abortions among unmarried women and teenagers in a bid to “improve reproductive health” starting this year. Domestic media reported citing the state-backed organization’s 2022 work plan. The announcement came nearly five months after China’s cabinet, the State Council, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Navdeep Suri, India’s Former High Commissioner to Australia, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and Author and Salvatore Babones, Adjunct Scholar, Centre for Independent Studies(CISOZ), Associate Professor, Sydney University and Author in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. The panel discusses the fourth Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the dynamics of war fighting keeps changing, national security paradigms need to keep pace. This holds good for a country like India that’s up against an adversary such as China. The biggest challenge now is how to transit from an industrial ear military to a digital era military, says Lt Gen. Raj […]Read More
Decoupling between the United States and China has caused losses to both sides but China has lost much more than its rival, says a report by a research institute of Peking University. China still has a long way to go towards being a technologically powerful country and the United States still leads the world in […]Read More
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world’s largest federation of journalists’ unions, has said that China is suing a range of coercive means to control coverage of Chinese affairs by foreign journalists in China. A report put out by the federation says restrictions imposed by the regime on foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games […]Read More
Keeping an eye on terrorist groups inside Afghanistan without having U.S. forces on the ground has proved to be extremely difficult, says Lt Gen. Michael Kurilla who has been nominated by President Joe Biden to lead the U.S. Central Command. “Over-the-horizon capability is extremely difficult but not impossible,” he told a Senate Armed Services Committee. […]Read More
Pakistanis living in exile in the UK have been warned of threats to their lives and asked to keep low profile, according to a report published in ‘The Guardian’. This comes a week after a jury convicted Muhammad Gohir Khan, a 31-year-old British man of Pakistani descent, who agreed to kill a Pakistani dissident based […]Read More
A report made public on the order of Punjab Information Commission in Pakistan has thrown up shocking statistics regarding safety of women, the lack of it rather. In the last six months of last year, 2,439 women were raped, 9,529 kidnapped while 90 were killed in the name of so-called honour in the province. According […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third highest post in the State Department, Ex-Envoy to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Editor’s Note: These are quotes edited for space, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Take a look at the map of Nepal above. Beginning from the extreme northwest with the districts of Darchula, Humla and Mugu and stretching eastwards to the districts of Mustang, Manang, Gorkha, Rasuwa, Dolakha and Solukhumbu, Nepal is feeling the heat as China alters boundaries in these areas, knocking down border pillars and […]Read More
China The Bigger Loser In Tech Decoupling With U.S. Decoupling between the United States and China has caused losses to both sides but China has lost much more than its rival, says a report by a research institute of Peking University. China still has a long way to go towards being a technologically powerful country […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The long-simmering insurgency in Balochistan directed against Pakistani army excesses including human rights abuses and exploitation of its economic resources, seems to have taken a new turn with multiple attacks on Pakistani army posts resulting in casualties. Alok Bansal, director of the India Foundation think tank and a specialist on Balochistan, in a […]Read More
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